. The data included the following milestones: diagnosis by needle biopsy, first definitive surgery, last definitive surgery, and adjuvant therapy timing (chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or endocrine therapy). NCCN also provided benchmarking data for the
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receive perioperative chemotherapy, including both neoadjuvant and adjuvant therapy. 23 Although a certain proportion of patients may be poor candidates for therapy based on comorbidity or impaired renal function (thereby precluding cisplatin
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Breast cancer mortality is approximately half of what it was in 1980 due to aggressive screening, combination adjuvant therapies, and the emergence of effective targeted agents for the metastatic setting. “We anticipate that as data emerge from
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(ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT03952585 ). “Those that exceed the landmark PFS and MDADI scores could move forward in a randomized phase III trial,” she said. Can Adjuvant Therapy Be Altered After Primary Surgical Resection? ECOG 3311 was the first
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extension and N2 as gross disease, Dr. Koh noted. He stated that selecting patients for adjuvant therapy is challenging. Rather than look at the total number of nodes, he suggested using a ratio of the number of positive nodes per side divided by the number
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Systemic Therapy In patients with early-stage breast cancer, systemic adjuvant therapy is administered to reduce risk of breast cancer recurrence. The decision is often based on individual risk of relapse and predicted sensitivity to treatment (eg
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to satisfy insistent patients. At all stages of cancer care, including at presentation, during neoadjuvant or adjuvant therapy, and in the treatment of advanced disease, evidence-based guidelines are needed to help direct physicians and their patients
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studies, adjuvant therapy includes chemotherapy, targeted therapy with trastuzumab, and hormonal therapy. 13 – 15 In countries with limited resources, anthracyclines and taxanes are the most commonly used drugs, either in combination or sequentially
